Jiran Jigyo Data, a data protection company, said on Feb. 12 it participated in the “Transportation Card Synthetic Data Release Project” promoted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Korea Transportation Safety Authority and the National Information Society Agency. The project uses synthetic data technology to open transportation card usage records to support improvements in public and private transit services and help shape urban transport policy. The company said it built synthetic data that maintains statistical characteristics while removing identifiable information.